Indicating device



9 1936 J. E. MASBACH INDICATING DEVICE Filed June 29, 1954 XNVENTOR fawnZIMayadz i atented Mar. 3, i936 UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE 7 Claims.

This invention relates to indicating devices and more particularly tomeans carried by a bottle or other container for finger nail polish orother cosmetics, to give an accurate indication of the coloration of thenail or other part to which the contents of the container may beapplied.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a simpleindicating means of the above character which will not materiallyincrease the manufacturing cost of the bottle or container and whichwill enable the prospective purchaser to obtain positive knowledge ofthe particular color shade which will be imparted to the nail byapplication thereto of the contents of the container.

To this end the invention, in one of its embodiments, is characterizedby the provision-of a sheet of tinted or colored celluloid, or othertransparent or translucent material, attached to the container; saidsheet and the container wall having relatively displaced portions toprovide a recess or pocket for the reception of the finger. Thus thefinger nail, when viewed through the tinted sheet, will appear to becolored in a shade accurately indicative of that which would result fromactual application of the container contents to the nail.

, As a subsidiary feature I may provide a label attached to the surfaceof the bottle or container and having parts thereof associated with thecelluloid sheet to represent the uncolored tip and base portions of thefinger nail.

A further object of the invention is to provide an indicating means forthe above purpose, to be either permanently or removably associated witha supporting body and which, in one embodiment thereof, may include aplurality of finger receiving pockets or recesses having differently orsimilarly colored transparent walls.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in theimproved indicating device and in the form, construction and relativearrangement of its several parts, as will hereinafter be more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and subsequentlyincorporated in the subjoined claims.

In the drawing wherein 'I have disclosed several simple and practicalembodiments of the invention, and in which similar reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cosmetic bottle or container providedwith one embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, the label and transparentmember being removed.

' Fig. 3 is adetail view of the label.

Fig. 4; is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is an elevation similar to Fig. 1 showing another arrangement ofthe device.

Fig. '6 is a perspective view illustrating a modified embodiment of theinvention.

Fig. '7 is a sectional'view taken on the line of Fig. -6, the supportingbody being omitted.

Fig. '8 is a detail sectional view showing another modified form of thedevice.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the bottle or container! may be ofany desiredsize, shape and capacity and formed of glass or othermaterials. In the manufacture of the container it is provided with anexternal recess 6 in one wall thereof. In Fig. 1 of the drawing I haveshown this recess in one side wall and extending'obliquely upward fromthe lower right hand corner of the container. It may, however, beotherwise located, as for instance in the vertical center line of thebottle, as shown in Fig. 5.

At one of its ends the recess 6 opens upon the periphery of thecontainer and the open side of the recess is surrounded by a channel orrabbet 1, though, if desired this feature may be omitted. The wall 'ofthe recess leading to this channel is preferably longitudinally andtransversely curved. A correspondingly curved, thin sheet of celluloidor other transparent or translucent material, indicated at 8 is arrangedover and in opposed relation to the recess 6. The marginal edges of thistransparent sheet are outwardly flanged and secured by means of asuitable adhesive in the channel or rabbet l, as clearly shown in Fig. 4of the drawing.

The celluoid sheet 8 :is colored by any approved method to accuratelyindicate upon the nail of a finger positioned in the recess 6, theactual color which will be imparted to the nail by the applicationthereto of the contents of the particular container.

I may also provide means in association with the transparent sheet 6 forindicating the white tip and base portions of the nail to Which thepolish is not applied. Thus, the label 9, attached to the face of thecontainer and which may bear suitable descriptive printing, is providedwith an opening l0 through which the major portion of the transparentsheet 8 is exposed. At the opposite ends of this opening white oruncolored portions of the label, indicated at I I, are superimposed uponthe sheet 8 and adhesively secured thereto. However, any otherequivalent means may be provided for this purpose.

Fig. 8 illustrates an alternative method of attaching the celluloidsheet to the container. Thus, the surface of the container may beprovided with spaced ribs I2 connected by the concave surface l3. Thecelluloid sheet 8' is initially formed in concavo-convex shape andprovided with the inwardly extending flanges M at its opposite sideedges. To apply the sheet 8' it is necessary to first expand the sidewalls thereof outwardly. Upon release thereof the flanges l4 lock behindand securely grip the ribs I 2 on the container. Other alternative meansfor attaching the celluloid sheet will readily suggest themselves fromthe above examples.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I illustrate an application of my invention which isprimarily designed for counter use. As shown a dummy of wood or othermaterial, indicated at l5, constitutes a supporting body for a shell l6.Vertically contiguous portions of this shell are struck outwardly toform a series ofopen-ended, finger receiving. pockets II. The entireshell may be of transparent material or only those portions forming thewalls of the pockets I! may be transparent and suitably colored. Thecolors of the respective portions may be difierent, as indicated in thedrawing, or all of one color, as, preferred. Thus the appearance of allthe fingers of one hand may be simultaneously viewed through the pocketwalls, and an accurate indication obtained of the color which will bestmeet the individual preference.

From the above description, considered in connection with theaccompanying drawing the construction and several advantages of myinvention will be readily understood. The device while of very simpleconstruction is convenient and serviceable in practical use. By meansthereof the observer can obtain an accurate indication of the colorshade which will be imparted to the nails by means of the polish in theparticular container with which the device is associated. Heretofore,even though the material may be vended in glass containers this was notpossible. The apparent color of the polishtherein was deceptive owing tothe refraction of light through the glass walls of the container. Myinvention will therefore promote the sale of such cosmetic materialswith greater satisfaction to the purchaser. r

I have herein shown and described several embodiments of the invention,but it will be understood that, insofar as the essential featuresthereof are concerned, the same might also be incorporated in variousother alternative structural forms. Accordinglyl reserve the privilegeof resorting to all such legitimate changes in the form, constructionand relative arrangement of the several elements as may fairly beconsidered within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed. I

What I claim is: V

l. A container for nail coloring material having an external fingerreceiving recess, open at one end and provided with a side wall oftransparent material colored correspondingly to the contents of thecontainer and through which the nail of a finger positioned in saidrecess is viewed, to indi cate the coloration of the nail by theapplication of the container contents thereto.

2. In combination with a container for nail coloring material, atransparent member colored correspondingly to the contents of thecontainerand attached to said container, said member and containerhaving opposing parts relatively shaped and spaced apart to form afinger receiving pocket openat one end, the finger nail adapted to bepositioned adjacent to said transparent member, to be viewedtherethrough and thereby indicate the coloration of the nail by theapplication of the contents of the container.

3. A container for nail coloring material having an external fingerreceiving recess, open at one end thereof, and a concave-convex sheet oftransparent material colored correspondingly to the contents of thecontainer and attached to the container and extending over said recess,through which the finger nail is viewed, to indicate the coloration ofthe nail by the application of the container contents thereto.

4. A container for nail coloring material having an external fingerreceiving recess, open at one end and provided with a side wall oftransparent material colored correspondingly to the contents of thecontainer, and through which the nail of a finger positioned in saidrecess is viewed, to indicate the coloration of the nail by theapplication of the container contents thereto, and spaced uncoloredparts superimposed upon said transparent material, indicative of theuncolored tip and base portions of the nail.

5. A container for nail coloring material having a finger receivingrecess open at one end and provided with a side wall of transparentmaterial colored correspondingly to the contents of the container andthrough which the nail of a finger positioned in said recess is viewed,to indicate the coloration of the nail by the application of thecontainer contents thereto, and a label attached to the container andhaving parts thereof superimposed upon said transparent side wall,indicative of the uncolored tip and base portions of the nail- 6. Incombination with a supporting body, a shell partially enclosing saidbody and having a plurality of contiguous portions formed to provide aseries of finger receiving pockets, the walls of said pockets, throughwhich the nails of fingers positioned therein are viewed, beingtransparent and colored, to indicate the coloration of the nails by theapplication of a cosmetic material thereto.

7. In combination with a rigid supporting body, a transparent membercolored correspondingly to the color of coloring material when appliedto the finger nail, said member comprising alongitudially andtransversely'curved wall, and means for mounting said member upon saidbody, with opposite side edges and one end edge of said wall in contactwith a surface of said body and the other end edge of the wall spacedfrom said surface, to thereby form an elongated finger receiv-- ingpocket, completely closed along opposite sides and one end thereof andopen at its other end for the insertion of the finger into said pocket.

JEAN E. MASBACH.

